Classical Music

Classical Music

This release includes the first recording of Kurt Atterberg's concerto for violin, cello and symphony orchestra, a work inspired by folk tunes and commissioned by the Swedish Radio in 1960. This release also includes his Suite Barocco- elegant neoclassical music, used as theme music to Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and The Sinfonia per archi- music of deep and sincere emotion. One of Sweden's leading composers during the middle twentieth century, Kurt Atterberg championed contemporary Swedish music as a whole in his work as a conductor, critic, and officer in composer-advocacy organizations. His music was easily accessible - a polytonal treatment of late Romanticism - and he had little love for more advanced techniques or the composers, even young Swedes, who used them. In his lifetime, he developed only a small reputation outside Scandinavia, mainly in Germany; even in Sweden he was regarded as something of a relic by the 1950s, his final period of extensive composition. Atterberg's work has enjoyed a revival on recordings, if not in the concert hall, and his posthumous reputation now seems secure.

He was undoubtedly the greatest Danish pianist ever. His fame was legendary and he made some of the most impressive recordings for the Danish HMV and TONO label together with a giving concerts all over the world. His recorded legacy is among the most fascinating and we are proud to give you the 4th volume with never before published live recordings of Palmgren and Schubert. Volumes 1-3 confined themselves to studio recordings, whereas Volume 4 presents Schiøler in concert. The Second Piano Concerto by Selim Palmgren was performed during a Finnish tour undertaken in 1962 by the Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra, in conjunction with a ‘Danish Week’ on Finnish radio. The piece was something of a calling-card for Schiøler on tour: in 1925 he had taken it to England, giving performances at the Henry Wood Proms and in Bournemouth under the baton of Sir Dan Godfrey. Cast as a single-movement rhapsody in a loose-limbed, high-Romantic idiom, the concerto was composed in1906-13, taking a Swedish folk dance as its principal melody, and carries a subtitle, ‘TheRiver’, which refers to the Kokemaienjoki flowing through the Bothnian town of Pori, where Palmgren was born and spent his early years.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Founded in 1987 the annual Rarities of Piano Music Festival in the North German town of Husum is a major event. Danacord is proud to release the recording from the 32nd Festival in 2018 featuring again rare piano music played by some of the leading pianists of today. Among the highlights you will find the truly remarkable pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi and very rare piano works by Vierne and Nicode. Many of the works are first ever album recordings, and as usual all are unedited live performances. All lovers of piano music will want this release, not only because of the first class pianism from truly outstanding performers, but also because the quality of the often unknown and rare mostly romantic piano music is of such invaluable substance. Critics are raving about the piano sound and the long and informative booklet.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music